San Miguel del Vado Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

One of 104 National Register listings published here for San Miguel County · listed in 1972 · category: District.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. SE of San Jose on NM 3, off U.S. 84, San Jose, 87560
When was it listed? July 1972
Category. district
Census division. Villanueva
National Register reference number. 72000809 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

41 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of San Miguel del Vado Historic District between 1993 and 2020, burning about 324 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Debris and open burning	8
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Fireworks	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Las Vegas District	LA PALOMA
24 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	296
23 August 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	GONZALES
9 July 2011	Natural	under an acre	Santa Fe National Forest	BEGOSO
31 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	RAMON
3 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	FRAGUA
19 July 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	New Mexico State Forestry Division	LA MADERA
10 July 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	New Mexico State Forestry Division	PUEBLO

Every fire recorded in San Miguel County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of San Miguel del Vado Historic District: 4 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in San Miguel County

Storms near this property

11 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names San Jose, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 2004 and 2023: 11 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2020	Hail	San Jose	-	Nickel size hail was observed at the Pecos River RV Campground as a severe thunderstorm continued to move south through San Miguel County.
July 2020	Hail	San Jose	-	A trained spotter reported nickel to quarter size hail near San Jose.
October 2017	Hail	San Jose	-	Hail up to the size of pennies lasted up to 5 minutes in San Jose.
October 2017	Hail	San Jose	-	Very heavy rainfall with penny to nickel size hail near Ribera.
August 2015	Hail	San Jose	-	Pea to nickel size hail fell along with an estimated 45 mph wind gust.
June 2004	Hail	San Jose	-	Accumulation of hail on Interstate 25 caused several accidents.
October 2023	Hail	San Jose	-	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	San Jose	-	no account filed
July 2013	Hail	San Jose	-	no account filed
August 2012	Hail	San Jose	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	San Jose	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in San Miguel County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72000809 in Record Group 79.
San Miguel County	All 104 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.